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The Status of Delusion in the Light of Marcus’s Revisionary Proposals (2013)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S. (2013). The Status of Delusion in the Light of Marcus’s Revisionary Proposals. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 28(3), 421-436

Marcus’s view of belief is applied to the debate that centers around the question, “Are delusions beliefs?” Two consequences of this are that, i) the question, “Are delusions beliefs?”, strictly speaking, needs rephrasing and ii) that, once the quest... Read More about The Status of Delusion in the Light of Marcus’s Revisionary Proposals.

Do Property Rights Presuppose Scarcity? (2013)
Journal Article
Faraci, D. (2013). Do Property Rights Presuppose Scarcity?. Journal of Business Ethics, 125(3), 531-537. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1866-0

There is a common view, dating back at least to Hume, that property rights presuppose scarcity. This paper is a critical examination of that thesis. In addition to questioning the thesis, the paper highlights the need to divorce the debate over this... Read More about Do Property Rights Presuppose Scarcity?.

The Transcendental Economy Of Aesthetic (2013)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, A., & Stopford, R. (2013). The Transcendental Economy Of Aesthetic. In O. Hulatt (Ed.), Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy. Bloomsbury

I have approached the complex issue of aesthetic autonomy through the lens of Adorno’s analysis of Kant. Speciically, my focus rests upon scattered remarks he makes about Kantian subjectivity in the idiom of economics. he recasting of key elements in... Read More about The Transcendental Economy Of Aesthetic.

Catharine Cockburn on Substantival Space (2013)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2013). Catharine Cockburn on Substantival Space. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 30(3), 195-214

In the early eighteenth century, the English philosopher Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749) put forward an extremely unusual account of space. The originality of her account is best appreciated by contrasting it with others of the period; to this... Read More about Catharine Cockburn on Substantival Space.

Categoricalism, Dispositionalism, and the Epistemology of Properties (2013)
Journal Article
Tugby, M. (2014). Categoricalism, Dispositionalism, and the Epistemology of Properties. Synthese, 191(6), 1147-1162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-013-0316-y

Notoriously, the dispositional view of natural properties is thought to face a number of regress problems, one of which points to an epistemological worry. In this paper, I argue that the rival categorical view is also susceptible to the same kind of... Read More about Categoricalism, Dispositionalism, and the Epistemology of Properties.

Cutoff dependence of the Casimir force within an inhomogeneous medium (2013)
Journal Article
Horsley, S. A. R., & Simpson, W. M. R. (2013). Cutoff dependence of the Casimir force within an inhomogeneous medium. Physical Review A, 88(1), Article 013833. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.88.013833

We consider the ground-state energy of the electromagnetic field in a piston geometry. In the idealized case, where the piston and the walls of the chamber are taken as perfect mirrors, the Casimir pressure on the piston is finite and independent of... Read More about Cutoff dependence of the Casimir force within an inhomogeneous medium.

Causal Nominalism and the One Over Many Problem (2013)
Journal Article
Tugby, M. (2013). Causal Nominalism and the One Over Many Problem. Analysis, 73(3), 455-462. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/ant038

The causal nominalist theory of properties appears at first glance to offer a novel nominalist approach and one that can provide an illuminating response to the one over many problem. I argue, however, that on closer inspection causal ‘nominalism’ co... Read More about Causal Nominalism and the One Over Many Problem.

Metaphysics and Science (2013)
Book
Mumford, S., & Tugby, M. (Eds.). (2013). Metaphysics and Science. Oxford University Press

Citation of Maternal Narratives: A Butlerian Reading of Janet Frame's Autobiography (2013)
Journal Article
Gambaudo, S. (2013). Citation of Maternal Narratives: A Butlerian Reading of Janet Frame's Autobiography. Life Writing, 10(3), 295-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2013.802412

Narratives express and constrain what we might say about experience. In this paper, I want to explain how Janet Frame (1924–2004) was conditioned by her mother to learn and use pre-agreed narratives of family history, the accurate performance of whic... Read More about Citation of Maternal Narratives: A Butlerian Reading of Janet Frame's Autobiography.

What Is the Metaphysics of Science? (2013)
Book Chapter
Mumford, S., & Tugby, M. (2013). What Is the Metaphysics of Science?. In S. Mumford, & M. Tugby (Eds.), Metaphysics and science (3-28). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199674527.003.0001

In this chapter it is argued, for both historical and conceptual reasons, that the metaphysics of science is concerned with the very metaphysical preconditions of science. Scientific disciplines are characterized, at least in part, by their aim to pr... Read More about What Is the Metaphysics of Science?.

Perceiving Immaterial Paths. (2013)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2015). Perceiving Immaterial Paths. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 90(3), 687-715. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12037

In what sense does empty space feature in visual experience? In the first part of this essay I sketch a view advanced by Soteriou (2011) and Richardson (2009) on which one's visual awareness of empty space is explained by appeal to ‘structural’ featu... Read More about Perceiving Immaterial Paths..

'Sapient trouble-tombs'?: Archaeologists' moral obligations to the dead (2013)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2013). 'Sapient trouble-tombs'?: Archaeologists' moral obligations to the dead. In S. Tarlow, & L. Nillson Stutz (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of death and burial (665-676). Oxford University Press

This chapter argues that moral questions raised by archaeological research on human remains are helpfully studied in the context of a broader range of questions about the ethically proper relations between the living and the dead. How, for instance,... Read More about 'Sapient trouble-tombs'?: Archaeologists' moral obligations to the dead.

Medieval Disputationes de obligationibus as formal dialogue systems (2013)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2013). Medieval Disputationes de obligationibus as formal dialogue systems. Argumentation, 27(2), 143-166

Formal dialogue systems model rule-based interaction between agents and as such have multiple applications in multi-agent systems and AI more generally. Their conceptual roots are in formal theories of natural argumentation, of which Hamblin’s formal... Read More about Medieval Disputationes de obligationibus as formal dialogue systems.